Pocket pencil-holder.



PATENTED NOV. 24, 1903.

E. F. ROGERS.

POCKET PENCIL HOLDER.

APPLICATION rum) JAN. 14, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

I! gym Patented November 24, 1903.

PATENT prion,

' EDWARD F. ROGERS, OF GLOVERSVILLE, NEW YORK.

POCKET PENCIL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,799, dated November 24, 1903. Application filed January 14, 1903. Serial No. 138.959. (N0 model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD F. ROGERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gloversville, county of Fulton, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Pencil-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a View in front elevation of aportion of a mans vest or waistcoat having applied to one of the pockets thereof a pencilholder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of the pencil-holder detached.

The object of the invention is to provide a pocket pencil-holder which can be easily and quickly inserted within and removed from the pocket of a garment and when so inserted will clasp and support one or more pencils, pens, or the like carried in said pocket.

The improved holder comprises a resilient compressible retaining-frame adapted to be inserted in a pocket-opening in a garment and having angular portions adapted to distend the pocket laterally to prevent withdrawal of the frame therefrom and a claspframe connected with and held in the pocket by the retaining-frame and provided with one or more clasps adapted to receive and hold pencils, pens, and the like.

Referring to the drawings, the retainingframe comprises, preferably, a piece of wire bent into the shape of a bow to form resilient arms 1 1, provided near their ends with angular offsets 2, the frame so formed being adapted when compressed to be inserted into a pocket in a garment, as a mans vest, and when so inserted and expanded by its resilient force to distend the pocket or lining thereof laterally to prevent withdrawal of the frame therefrom.

The clasp-frame comprises,preferably,a T- shaped piece of sheet metal, having the lower end of its leg 3 connected with the middle bow portion of the l'etainingframe, as by the loop 4, embracing the wire of the retainingframe and soldered thereto, if desired.

Each of the T-arms of the clasp-frame is bent back upon the body thereof to form Loops 5, adapted to receive and guide the ends 6 of the respective retaining-frame arms, which are adapted to be inserted therein and to play therein during the movements of contraction and expansion of the retaining-frame. These retroverted arms 7 are bent to corrugated or waved form, as shown, to adapt them to receive and hold between said arms and the body of the clasp-plate pencils, pens, or the like, which are thus securely retained in the pocket of the wearer by the resilient force of the clasp thifs formed by the body of the clasp-plate and the retroverted arms 7, which formed clamping members in opposed relation to each otheradapted to forcibly engage an interposed pencil or the like.

The ends of the retaining-frame are preferably provided with hook-shaped terminals 8, adapted to engage the top edge of the pocket and hang thereon, whereby the clasp-frame is maintained within and near the top of the pocket in convenient position for use, while said hook-shaped terminals afford easily-accessible handles for the compression of the springframe when it is desired to withdraw the same from the pocket.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a pocket pencil-holder, the combination with a resilient compressible bow-shaped frame adapted to be inserted in a pocketopening in a garment and having angular portions near its ends adapted to distend the pocket laterally to prevent withdrawal of the frame therefrom; of a T-shaped metal pencil-clasp frame having its stem secured to the middle portion of said frame, and each of the T-arms thereof formed. with resilient clamping members in opposed relation to each other, substantially as described.

2. In a pocket pencil-l1older, the combination with a resilient compressible frame adapted to be inserted in a pocket-opening in a garment and be retained therein by its resilient expansive force; of hook-shaped terminals on the outer end of said frame adapted adapted to distend the pocket of the garment retaining-frame having rigid-looped ends forming a guideway to receive and guide said resilient arms respectively and having resilient clamping members in opposed relation to each other adapted to embrace and hold pencils or the like, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of December, 1902. EDXVARD F. ROGERS.

to engage the top edge of the pocket and hang thereon; and a pencil-clasp secured to said frame comprising clamping members in opposed relation to each other, substantially as described.

3. In a pocket pencil-holder, the combina- I tion With the retaining-frame having resilient l arms provided near their ends With offsets Witnesses :v

MERTIE G. HOWELL, JEREMIAH WOOD.

Within which said frame can be inserted by compression of said arms; of a metal claspframe secured at its middle portion to said 

